Bernard Boakye-AframNeuromechanics Group Seminar

Simon Fraser University

TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN GLOBAL HEALTH

Trend of Global Health Needs

An Inconvenient Truth: Business School Ideas are not always applicable◦ Product and process are separable◦ Compliance Issues: Cultural Resistance, Lack of a

social context

Challenges of Global Health Innovation

User based needs assessment Very expensive Difficulty with technology

Suggested Models for Innovation

Open Innovation works

Suggested Models for Innovation

Reverse Innovation

Suggested Models for Innovation

Magnet Effect: Using innovation to attract communities to health care facility

Professional Satisfaction/retention

Align innovation with short-term objectives of elected public office holders